We yet have safety. ( Together, with Wei Ying, their two maiden companions. There is no bleeding, no pain. Bones are not so broken, skin yet untattered. They can survive. )

The dead are not often so dominant. ( Which reminds him, callously: ) After rest, we will return to cull them.

( For now, ease, sleep. Fatigue lives too long in their bodies, ruinous, to risk another hunt. Even at war, generals insisted on the long-term benefits of rest. )